Add Chicken, BBQ, dressing, brown sugar and garlic powder in the crock pot. With a Liner! You use a crock pot because it makes preparing the meal easy....it's not easy if you have to scrub the damn thing all night. Go get liners. Right now.

I cooked on high for 4 hours and it came out perfect. Shredd and set back in sauce.

Toast the buns and top with chicken, cheese and pickles. I love bread and butter pickles, but you use whatever you like.

We really enjoyed this. Simple, easy and was great for lunch the next day!

Happy Saturday Morning! My husband is rather cranky this morning and now he and my neighbor are mowing the lawn. I am here alone, all peaceful and starving!

Nothing here that is going to set the world on fire or be featured in Bon Apetit magazine, but it was tasty.

1 left over baked potato (or cook one real quick, I'm not waiting. You can catch up later)
Sprinkle of Cajun seasoning, I use Badia
Salt and Pepper
2 Eggs
4 strips of bacon, crumbled (Make 6, ur going to eat 2)
Pinch of cheese

Now grab your handle dandy, most favorite pan and put that bad boy on high heat.

I just baked some bacon for something else in the oven so I had the left over bacon grease. If not, use butter or a little oil, whatever tickles your fancy.

Scoop potato flesh out of the skin and plop in the pan and allow to brown. Break up the potato with your spoon into big chunks. Sprinkle cajun seasoning. When potato is mostly browned, scoot to one side.

Add 2 eggs to the other side of the pan and scramble. Once eggs are cooked, stir in with the potatoes and salt and pepper to taste. Crumble in bacon and stir to combine.

Top with a pinch of cheese. People. A "pinch" is three fingers, not a half cup. The cheese is not the star. Don't over do it.

Add some onions, peppers, sausage, whatever you prefer! I was not in the mood for all that jazz.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Well hello! So this didn't turn out exactly how I planned, but it was still pretty good. I will probably make some changes next time. The sauce wasn't as brown and I felt it should have been and it didn't thicken as well either. I had to add a little corn starch.

The chicken I used was already very thin, but if you buy regular chicken then just slice in half, lengthwise, and pound the hell out of it until its about 1/4 inch thick. Or, be lazy and buy it already like that.

Heat heavy pan on med high

Trim chicken and season with salt and pepper, dredge in flour. Shake off any excess.

Add 2 TBS of butter and 1 TBS of olive oil. Add chicken in batches, don't over crowd. Cook a few minutes on each side until cooked through. Set aside on paper towed lined plate.

Once all chicken is done, add another TBS of butter and the mushrooms. Cook 1-2 mins until they start to brown, add the shallots and garlic. Cook about 2 more minutes.

Deglaze with Marsala and Sherry and allow to cook until reduced by almost half.

Add the chicken broth to the mix and turn down to med low heat. Add chicken back in for a few minutes to heat through.

Add about 1/4 cup of half and half and stir. Top with parsley and serve over hot cooked pasta.

I'd be lying if I didn't tell you that I sprinkled a little cayenne pepper on top. That's how I roll.

You need to prep this stuff first, because once you get going, it goes fast. I'm more of a shake-as-you-go kinda girl. But there a lot of stuff so do yourself a favor.

Cut your chicken into pieces, set aside
I used my little hand chopper thing and minced (again, no chunks) the shallot, onion and garlic, set aside
Grate your ginger, set aside
Mix all the spices in a bowl, including the bay leaf, set aside

Ok, lets go.

Heat 2 TBS of oil and sauté chicken over high heat. Just get a little brown on it and remove w a slotted spoon. It doesn't have to be done yet, just a little brown.

Add another TBS of oil and bring heat back up, med-high. Add the shallot/onion/garlic mixture and stir. Don't let it burn. Add the butter.

Once the butter is melted add the lemon juice and your spices and let the heavenly scent fill your nostrils and take you to the, IDK, hot streets of India? What's awesome in Indian? It's not like they have majestic mountains, babbling brooks or rolling hills. Or do they? Whatever, it smells amazing. Stir about for literally like 30 seconds.

Add the can of tomato sauce. Add the chicken back to the party. I put on medium heat and allowed the chicken to finish cooking. About 15 minutes or so. Clean your mess up, you have time now.

Turn down to low then add the half-and-half and the yogurt. Add slowly so it doesn't curdle.

Mix the water and corn starch and add to the mix. Heat another few minutes to thicken. Serve with rice.

It was good. Not my favorite dinner in the whole world. I will say, it was better the next day at lunch. Husband loved it!

Heat heavy pan on high heat and add olive oil
Add beef to the pan and fry on high heat for a min or so, just to brown a bit. Season with salt and pepper. I like a lot of pepper, but go easy on the salt. The gravy will be salty enough. Process demons trying to kill us with sodium intake.
It released a lot of juice so I put a lid on it and allowed it to cook for about 10 minutes until most of it was absorbed. Remove lid and add Worcestershire sauce, stir to combine.
Add remaining spices and jar of beef gravy. Reduce to med heat and put a lid on it. I let it simmer for about 20 minutes or so and unloaded the dishwasher. Unloading of the dishwasher is optional.
When your just about ready to serve add the sour cream. Stir to combine and allow to heat through, make sure it's on low so it doesn't start to curdle.
Serve on top of your egg noodles in your most presentable Rubbermaid container.

Before you think I'm total white trash, feeding my family out of Rubbermaid containers, I forgot to take a photo until I was packing up for lunches the next day. Don't be so judgy!

Saturday, November 7, 2015

If you've ever been to Copeland's and not tried their Bayou Broccoli with Tiger sauce, then you haven't lived! These are in no way as delicious as Copeland's, but they are a slightly healthier version that will work.

Cook broccoli in microwave according to package directions
Drain broccoli and blend in a blender until mush
Add spices, egg, both cheeses and 1/4 cup of panko (mix and if too soupy add more panko)
Roll into balls and then roll in remaining panko to coat outside.
Arrange on a baking sheet and bake at 375 until brown. I did about 15 minutes and then turned and did another 10.
Serve this delicately on a paper plate

I was rather tired, annoyed and not in the mood to think. I also kinda wanted a burger, but was too lazy to fire up the grill so I threw this "slop" together. I joke because my husband said it was one of the best dinners I'd made in a long time. So here is where you have to choose to accept the compliment and say thank you, or be a bitch (wtf are you talking about, I just made ur favorite dinner last night).

Well I stuttered for a moment and then went with a gargled Thanks.

How it is it that a compliment can also be a gab? I think it's because I'm a woman. Anyways, you don't want to hear me ramble about, here's how I made it:

Preheat to 400 degrees.
Mix potatoes with olive oil, arrange in a single layer in a deep 13x9 in basking dish. Sprinkle with Cajun seasoning, about 1/2 tsp or so. Throw it in the oven and bake for about 20-30 minutes.
Meanwhile, brown the ground beef (I use lean, so there isn't any fat)
Add Worcestershire sauce and spices. Sitr to combine.
Reduce heat and add ketchup and mustard. Taste and add mustard as needed.
Remove potatoes and loosen from the bottom with a spatula, but keep in a single layer.
Pour ground beef mixture on top of potatoes and top with cheese. The cheese is not the star, don't over do it. Just a little cheese.
Serve with ketchup, mustard and pickles.
Add bacon, it would be delicious, but I didn't have any.

************yeah don't make this. It needs a lot of work. Something to make it sour, fish sauce?
Also, ditch the crock pot. It wasn't bad when I put it in a real pot on the stove. Reduced and then thickened with the slurry. We'll try again.

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Fall is here!!! My favorite time of year, well, it's mostly wishful thinking. Florida's fall is 5 cooler days with a breeze and then it's hot again until January. Nonetheless, the fall cooking comes out!

I've made beef stew before and will probably make it different every time, but this is the way it went this time:

Heat a dutch oven to med high heat. Salt and pepper the beef and dredge in flour, shake off excess.

Add olive oil and heat until it just barely smokes, add the beef in batches, don't over crowd. Don't over brown either! Set meat aside (add more oil if needed)

Add onion and brown just a tad, don't over do it! (I leave the onions as big as I can. I love the flavor, but hate biting into an onion. Yuck!)

Deglaze pan with red wine, stirring to get the brown bits off the bottom. Add Worcestershire sauce, I may have done more like 2 TBS, but whatever tickles your fancy. I love Worcestershire!! Keep stirring and add tomato paste. Stir until reduced and starts to bubble a bit.

****My husband bought me a dutch oven for Christmas last year and I love that thing! I don't know how I've lived this much with out it. Someone put it in the dishwasher, by mistake, and when I found it I very loudly GASPED and my hubs ran into the kitchen asking what was wrong. Then, swore 6 ways to Sunday that he didn't put it in there. Obviously, I didn't think he knew we had a dishwasher, much less put something in there! If you don't have a Dutch oven, go get one. Right now. I'll wait.

Happy Sunday!

I forgot to take a picture all pretty on a dinner plate, so this is the packed for lunch version.

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Preheat to 375 degrees
Slice jalapenos lengthwise and scrape out seeds and white membrane, unless you like the spice, then leave some of the membrane.
Spread cream cheese into each jalapeno. I like just enough to fill to the top, but not mounded up.
Wrap with bacon and bake until bacon is crisp.

Obviously you can make many more if you like, but it was just the 2 of us and we didn't need a truck load!
These were delicious!!!

Potatoes Au Gratin?
These were not your traditional Au Gratin, it was more of a potato cake, maybe? Anyways.

Preheat to 350 degrees
After slicing potatoes layer in a single layer on bottom of greased pie dish. I did it in a big circle, then smaller and so forth. I did two layers and then I would spread about 1 TBS of the cheese spread on top. About half way through I added the salt, pepper, and paprika. Repeat with remaining spuds.
Bake for 50 minutes, cover with foil if the top browns too much.
Remove from oven and top w bacon bits and grated cheese, return to oven 10 more minutes to melt.
Allow to cool before cutting.

Here's a picture of the Potato thing after I sliced it. Perfect little pie pieces, I put some ranch on top of mine.

Behind there in the back are Feta Stuffed Mushrooms. I've posted the recipe before. They are a favorite at my house!

Cut chicken tenders into small pieces, about 3 per tenderloin, and place in a ziplock, add hot sauce. Marinade as long as you can, I did about 6 hours.
Heat oil to 350 degrees and remove chicken from hot sauce, discard remaining sauce.
Mix flour and spices together, just eye ball it. I use a lot of this and a little of that, whatever you like.
Dredge chicken in flour and fry in oil. Took about 6 minutes each batch. I did 5 per batch, don't over crowd.
Drain on paper towels and service with Ranch! I mixed Ranch and some of the Franks hot sauce to make a "Cajun ranch".

Preheat to 350 degrees.
Peel and chop apple into very small pieces. It's not apple sauce, so don't get crazy.
Prepare cake mix according to package directions, add chopped apples, brown sugar, cinnamon and vanilla. Stir to combine.
Divide into paper lined muffin cups and bake according to package directions.
If you want them a little sweeter add some brown sugar and butter to the top. They were good either way.

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I'm just an ole' southern belle trying to make my house a home and my meals delicious! I love my husband and our three dog-kids, Mojo, Sophia and Diamond. And the newest addition to the Garrison Family would be Miss MacKenzie! I hope you enjoy reading of my kitchen miracles and nightmares. Its a day to day struggle, but I find comfort in my big red kitchen. Thanks for stopping by!